When did my baby……..

…..start with a touch of make- up……

 

add an up-do……..

and with a little help from her “subjects”………

One making her a grilled cheese because she was hungry, and one lacing her up……

become a

~*~Princess~*~

Shining, inside and out.

 

 

Beauty is not in the face,

beauty is a light in the heart.

~~ Kahlil Gibran

Even more proud of the beautiful person she is on the inside…..as well as the outside.

And, every time I turned around, she became more beautiful.

Beautiful and silly…..great combination……

 

I have tried again and again, to write out my emotion and feeling looking at these pictures. On one hand there is the extreme pride and love for the gorgeous woman that she is becoming, inside and out. Beautiful, caring, sensitive, yet strong and independent. My heart exploding every time I turned around and looked at her again.

She has looked forward to this night for such along time, and I wanted so much for it to be what she dreamed it to be, and a part of me knew, it would never compare to her imagination, but would create memories all it’s own.

And.

Then on the other hand, there is the melancholy and *sighs* that come as well, thinking that she is so quickly growing up and away from us. I wanted to tell her all at the same time, please stop growing up but also how proud I am of her, and how excited I am for her to start the next stage of her life. How much I long for her to stay close but how much I want her to grasp every opportunity her father and I have attempted to lay out for her. Don’t leave me, but travel the world! Study abroad, go be that princess in Disney next summer!! Stay tied to home, but travel from home. Expand your world, explore every corner.

Live. Explore.Love.Grow.Give.

Make your mark on the world, but please remember the mark we attempted to leave on you.

I love you sweetheart, more than you will ever be able to comprehend.